Small White Organisms In My Tank

[vonjankmon]

Well I'm going to attempt everything I can that won't put my fish at risk. The available information on this type of problem is WOEFULLY tiny. Most information on it is from a single source that basically states the only way to really get rid of them is to boil everything in your tank and that lowering the available food for the little things *sometimes* works.

Not a whole lot of useful info IMHO. Especially when you consider my cycling tank with the high ammonia is not from food but from ADA soil which for some reason sky rockets the ammonia in a tank and while that tank has fewer of the things than the one with fish it still has some and I have to really wonder what the little things are actually eating/surviving on.

So since I have a tank without fish in it I'm experimenting a bit on what the best way to get rid of them is, for my future knowledge and maybe to be able to offer more than "Boil everything in the tank" for a solution to other people who have or will have this problem.

 

[Saedcantas]

I'm just trying to help you avoid unnecessary treatment and effort (that could damage your plants and/or filter)

Which website have you gotten "boil it all!!!" information from? and could you please answer my earlier questions of a) where are these things mainly found in the tank and B) what is it that you now think they are?

Lotte***

 

[vonjankmon]

The link Wilder posted above is where the boil it method came from and as far as I could tell from search around the net that's basically *THE* guide for dealing with these things.


They're mainly in the tank water and they also begin to attach themselves to the sides of the tank. When they're moving around in the tank they're like tiny grains of salt, they kind of move in a jerking motion but they're way to small to actually make any kind of detail out. When they attach to the sides of the tank they're mostly clear but not entirely and a bit bigger but still to small to really make any kind of detail out.

As to what I think they are...well Planaria would be my best guess but it is really a total guess off of the tiny bit of information I have been able to find about anything similar to what I have.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAjvAZJxvvM

That video is kind of what they are like but mine are not nearly as large and much clearer.